State Spending: Where the Money Goes

You pay for your government, and you deserve to know how it spends your money. Use
the tools and information on this page to search the state check register, track state
spending and see your tax dollars at work.

Visualizing Expenditures and Trends

The Comptroller’s latest data visualization tools turn otherwise complicated data into easy-to-understand graphics, to help you understand how your tax dollars are spent now and in the past.

Start with a look at state spending
by major category, then drill down to
subcategories for more specific data.View Tool

See how annual state net
expenditures compare over the
past five years.View Tool

Search the state check register
by fiscal year to reveal state spending
by agency, payee and expenditure.View Tool

Get a close-up
view of the payees paid by state
agencies, how much they were paid
and when.View Tool